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that s the first increase after five consecutive months of declines. consumer prices edged up from 6.9% in march, which could further encourage the european central bank to raise interest rates on thursday. joining me now is christian schulz, deputy chief european economist at citi bank. lovely to see you. so, the number is on the up, no great surprise considering what we have seen elsewhere, but the big question is how the central bank response. the ecb has made some progress, i guess, the base rate was in double digits at the end of last year, we are now down to 7%. no further progress in april, it seems. looking at the details, there are some positives. food inflation is down, it had been rising and rising. hopefully that is a trend that will continue. also called goods inflation, that is also decreasing for the first time. the bad news is, for the ecb, that services inflation keeps rising and thatis services inflation keeps rising and that is the surprise in this, really.
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a remarkable news day with us. we begin with a brazen spy drama. straight to the pentagon, the briefing on a chinese balloon over montana. conducting press briefings in our temporary press briefing room while other primary location undergoes technical renovations and upgrades. we greatly appreciate your patience and flexibility as we work to install some long, overdue upgrades to the pentagon press briefing room. because we do not have internet or phone capability in this area of the pentagon for a variety of reasons, our normal call in options will not be available so for those who have had to call in, we apologize for the inconvenience. however, we will aim to get our briefing transcripts and the audio as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and we ll aim to answer your questions through our dod press desk when you send them to us. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve our briefi
thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let s go there. the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen s hall for temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a productive series of meetings in the republic of korea in the philippines, the secretary and his counterpart reaffirmed measures for deterrence on the korean peninsula, and pledge to closely cooperate regarding assets in the future, as well as further expand and bolster level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secret
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